5 IN MUSKOKA AMONG 171 OVER WEEKEND WITH COVID

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com

SIMCOE-MUSKOKA — An explosion of cases today sees 1,925 people in Ontario with COVID, including five people in Muskoka.

In Simcoe and Muskoka the health unit reports 171 for the past three days of Friday, Saturday and Sunday — an average of 51 per day.

See the full list at https://www.simcoemuskokahealth.org/MicroSites/Media/Health%20Stats/Instant%20Atlas/COVIDlist/COVID_DownloadableData_20201207.html

Here in the north, those include:

  • Bracebridge woman, 35-44, workplace;
  • Bracebridge man, 45-64, under investigation;
  • Gravenhurst, woman, 18-34, under investigation;
  • Huntsville, man, 80+, close contact;
  • Muskoka Lakes, man, 45-64, community acquired.

They are the latest grim numbers to start the week, in which 231 cases were reported up to last Friday by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit.

Ontario’s seven-day average has now risen to 1,820, with record numbers since Friday.

The province also saw 26 people die from the coronavirus — half of them in long-term care residences.

A combined 1,112 were in Toronto and Peel with 167 in York.

In Quebec, 1,577 people were diagnosed and 22 dead.

Manitoba posted 325 cases Monday.

Alberta’s numbers were 1,836 Sunday and 1,879 Saturday.

NOTES:

  • Canada’s first 249,000 Pfizer vaccines doses will go to LTC residents and staff — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said just before noon today— as the military conducts its first distribution dry-run Dec. 7.
  • The CBC says Air Canada has gotten almost half a billion in government bailout for employees.
  • In the U.S., Rudy Giuliani is in hospital with COVID.
With five more cases in Muskoka Monday, wearing a mask and keeping your hands clean continues to be as important if not moreso; and as the grim news of COVID’s spread becomes bigger news heading into Christmas — even with a vaccine now in the near offing.

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